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THE FRUSTRATIONS OF SPOT CHANGING Fit to Be SCENE | Guest Columnist Greetings, fitnessphiles! We've all had that friend or even been that friend who wants to tweak one area on the thighs, specifically the inner thighs on on their physique. Everyone at one time or another wants female lifters. The base problem is the fat desomething very specific to one little area that would vastly posit at the inner thigh, not the musculature change our feelings on our overall physique. Sometimes it’s as there. So often I’ve seen people doing inner simple as making your arms or calves bigger, but most often it thigh adduction exercises, trying to “slim down” that area. The is reducing body fat in an area. This is called spot changing. issue we have here is that you will place and burn fat ranSpot changing is one of the more frustrating points of a perdomly. You have areas you are genetically predisposed to place sonal trainer’s career, and can drive a fitness enthusiast to disfat, and your body pulls fat completely randomly to process it traction! It can be difficult to achieve semi-realistic goals like this for energy. The simplest way to reduce an area is to reduce because human physiology tends to get in the way. When everywhere, meaning put yourself in a caloric deficit, and burn gaining muscle mass, you will tend to be in a caloric surplus, fat everywhere! Working muscles in the area will make them meaning you are eating more than your body needs at any bigger and frustrate you to no end! The only time you can one time so you can support growth; sometimes that leads to specifically target what fat you will burn off is while doing carfat deposits as well as muscle gains. When you plan to target dio. Several studies have successfully concluded that cardioresone area over another, doing more exercise for that area will piratory exercise will burn off abdominal fat. The stuff under increase the muscle there, but the surrounding muscles will the muscle is called visceral fat, and this is what pushes your grow as they support the area of your focus. For instance, if abdominal wall out, giving you a “gut.” you tried to make your biceps bigger, your shoulders will grow In conclusion, just try to work out all around, and be happy some also since they hold the upper arm in place. In the long with yourself! Set good goals for yourself, and GET IN THE GYM! run, this universal growth will make visible change hard to notice, even though the numbers on the tape measure have Rick Hunter is a personal trainer and founder of founder of MEathead's Fitgone up. The trick to success is to find fully supported, focused ness. After being an Occupational Therapy practitioner for 10 years, Rick exercises. A good example for the biceps would be preacher decided to turn his focus into the preventative side of medicine. Since 2001, he has helped transform lives in various settings and worked with bench curls, where you lay your upper arm on/over a bench various athletes ranging from wanting to look better in clothes to figand perform curls. Spot change (or spot reduction) is what it’s called when you wish to reduce an area. This is the most frustrating goal anyone can come up with! Most commonly you will see this goal
ure/fitness competitors to elite martial artists to powerlifters. He has used NASM (PES and SFS) and IFPA National Certifications, and is studying the Anatomy Trains system to master postural correction. Find Rick at 713-4593427 or on Facebook.